[At first, her words make him look resentful. Reproach and frustration are in his expression, too, as they often are when people question him on these matters.]

Do you think I didn’t? Do you think I didn’t try?

[In some danger of raising his voice, he catches himself and lowers it to a whisper. She doesn’t know, he reminds himself. She thinks the Vale is her home.]

Do you think the Boltons had any care for the Night’s Watch? The Lannisters? Stannis came when we called, but he was the only one. I am no liar, Sansa. I’ve made the alliances I could. Those wildlings bled for the North — for us — same as any Northman would.